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I am now, as of today, three weeks post op. I have to say that pre-op and even surgery, other than the wake up after surgery and feeling like a truck hit me, has not been bad. Pain if any was truly minimal and I am happy with that.

Adjusting to eating however is a challenge. I was counting down the weeks and days to finally be able to eat something solid and once I was clear nothing solid stays down. I seem to be on a mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes, ice cream (not good for you), applesauce, cream of wheat and Soup diet now.

Yesterday I filled my plate (haha) with three baby white potatoes that had been baked and three Swedish meatballs. Two bites of the potatoes and -nope, stop, that did not work. They came back!!!! So, I waited about 15 minutes and mashed those little guys and cut each meatball in to four little bits and was able to finally get one potatoe and two meatballs down. that is the first meat that agrees with me. chicken so far is out of the question and I dare not try anything I can't mash.

Is anyone else running into these problems? My doctor did an ultrasound three days after surgery so everything inside is fine but I have nightmares that this is not normal. According to my diet I should be able to eat boiled chicken now- Nope!

I am not losing much at all, and had a WOW wake up call last night. I realized as I was eating cream of wheat for dinner that I was eating wheat (which my husband and I gave up Oct of 2013). That is probably adding to my loss of weight lost too. So no more COW for me. I had hope to be weighing a lot less now but it is slow.

I am hanging in there, no choice and I do have faith this will work, it is just pulling on my nerves trying to expand my diet and find the norm again as to variety.

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@@Apryl1957 You are only 3 weeks out of surgery, and your body still is swollen inside and adjusting to having the band. Your doc is aggressive with the food choices. I was on a liquid diet of Protein shakes for 2 weeks after surgery and then mushy/blended foods for 2 weeks then soft foods for 2 weeks and finally solid food.

Give yourself a chance to heal and choose foods that are mushy to soft. I also want to tell you that the choices you are making as stated above are not conducive to weight loss. Try to make some high Protein choices and steer clear of the potatoes and ice cream. They are high in carbohydrates sugar and fat.

Go for some Soups, or chili. You can put them in the blender for a quick spin to make them even thinner. If you can tolerate soft foods and your doctor is OK with that, try some eggs, or flaky fish. Meatballs are great but mush them up and go easy on the sauces and gravy. Try some Greek or other yogurt. sugar free low fat pudding you make at home with non fat milk.

It will take some time but you will get the hang of it.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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